Abstract
The purpose of this study is to characterize the gendered usage of sentence final particles (SFP) by native Cantonese speakers. Two spoken corpora of Cantonese are chosen. One is the conversation part of the HKCanCorp (Luke & Wong, 2015) which contains recordings of conversations between close ones (friends, family colleagues), the other are the Hansard transcripts of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) which we annotated by manually adding all occurrences of SFP. Both corpora give indications about the speakers’ gender which allows the study of the variation between masculine and feminine speakers.
Results show gender distinctions in the use of SFPs, which we trace back to attributed epistemic authority. Copyright © 2018 NWAV-AP5.
Results show gender distinctions in the use of SFPs, which we trace back to attributed epistemic authority. Copyright © 2018 NWAV-AP5.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - Feb 2018 |
| Event | NWAV Asia Pacific 5 (NWAV-AP5): Language contact and variation - University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Duration: 01 Feb 2018 → 03 Feb 2018 |
Conference
| Conference | NWAV Asia Pacific 5 (NWAV-AP5): Language contact and variation |
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| Abbreviated title | NWAV-AP5 |
| Country/Territory | Australia |
| City | Brisbane |
| Period | 01/02/18 → 03/02/18 |